22/10/2013. Pensioners protest. Patrick Touher fr 22/10/2013. Pensioners protest. Patrick Touher fr 22/10/2013. Pensioners protest. Patrick Touher froPatrick Touher, collapses while protesting with fellow senior citizens outside Leinster House this afternoon.

From Photocall Ireland:

According to  [photographer] Laura [Hutton], Patrick was helped up. They sat him down, he was conscious, and an ambulance came for him. We don’t know if he got in or if they just tended to him there. Though according to people who were at the protest, despite it being a big event for old age pensioners, there were absolutely no medics on site…

 

Patrick is the author of The Fear of The Collar about his childhood in Artane Industrial School.

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

Update: Patrick was back on his feet after being tended to by ambulance staff.

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Thousands of pensioners protest outside Leinster House, Kildare Street, Dublin this afternoon over cuts to medical cards and phone allowances. It has been five years pensioners forced the FF/Green coalition to scrap means tests for medical cards.

Earlier: OAP In A World Gone Mad

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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Sir Alex Ferguson speaking earlier at the launch of his autobiography on Roy Keane and his exit from Manchester United:

“For one reason or another he decided to go and criticise his team-mates, so most of you have not seen that video but you couldn’t release it. We couldn’t release it…

..We decided we had to do something. The meeting in the room was horrendous I just could not lose my control on this particular situation, and if I had, the players would have viewed me differently much more differently than I would have liked to be judged. For Roy overstepped his mark, absolutely overstepped his mark and there was nothing else we could do.”

Sir Alex Ferguson autobiography: Manager reserves his strongest criticism for former captain Roy Keane (Glenn Moore, The Independent)

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